, 1887-10-19
The Grand Lodge |. O. O. F. in
Regular Session.
Delegates Present From All POr-
tons of the Territory.
Election of officers and Reading of
Reports Yesterday.
Sixteen Lodges, With 53I Members
in Good Standing.

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the fifteenth annual session and sixteenth
meeting of the grand lodge. The extra
convention was a special session held sew
eral years ago.
Many of the Cheyenne members of the
order are known to citizens by reason OF
the occasion upon which they have APP
peared in public when attending funerals,
parades, etc. The visitors comprise the
they have come, including, merchants, at
torneys, tradesmen, stock growers and
representatives from every respectable
class. Each delegate wears a handsome
red badge and wearers of the emblem
were to be seen in front of their Eddy
street lodge rooms, in the Hobbies of the
hotels and walking about the streets when
not compelled to be present in the meet
ing room.
Many of the delegates have been sent
from points remote from the territorial
capital and consequently never weary Of
wandering about the city noting improve
ments since their last visit and viewing the
mammoth business houses, fine public
buildings and handsome residences.
The guests receive every consideration
due their position and the noble and
benevolent order to which they belong.
The bronzed red insignia on the lapel of
a g%entleman's coa is a guarantee hat he
is entitled to the hospitality of the city.
Yesterday morning the members Of
Cheyenne and Allemania lodges, the local
orders, together with the visitors, attend
ed the funeral of a brother who was
inferred in the military cemetery at Fort
Russell at 10 a. m.
Immediately following the dinner hour
the Odd Fellows went into secret session,
with Grand Master Pearson, of Rock
Springs, presiding, and the following
officers occupying their respective sta
tons:
Louis Miller, Deputy G. M; A. G.
Rex, G. W, w. H. Amesbury, G. s.;
H.. Haas, G. T.; A. T. Gale. G. Con-;
l.. Kabis. G. Marshal; Chas. Wilseck,
G. c.; E. F. Gaylor, G. G.; J. F. Hee,
G.. H.; Nick Thies, G.. Mes.
Following is a list of the delegates pres
ent and the lodges represented by them:
Cheyenne lodge, No. lie. w. Mann,
VIM. Murphy.
Laramie. No. "A. D. Holmes. H.
D. Beemer.
Mountain, No. 3. Carbon-A. Rasmus-
son.
Rawlins, No. a. F. McMillen, A.
F. Thode.
Allemania, No. 5, Cheyenne-H. Dill
man.
Evanston, No, WIN. Spence.
Albany. No. I, Laramie-Mark Jen-
nings, D. w. Rich.
Bridger, No. s., Burnt Fork-Clark
Logan.
Excelsior, No. 9, Rock Springs-Alex.
Briggs.
Wildey, No. 10, Fort Laramie-Jos.
Zumpobel.
Fremont, No. IL, LANDER. r. Nc
Kinney.
Ridgely, No. IL, Fort Washakie-Jas.
Bell.
Rongis, No. l3-S. Iiams.
Past grand masters, officers and past
grands:
W. L. Kuykendall. L. Kabis, Fl. Haas,
H. Kimme, E.W. Mann, H. Altman, d.
G. Grant, French Sharp, G. Wilseck, w.
N. Hunt, FIT. Smith, M. Hohnholz, Fred
Shaffer. Cheyenne; Louis Miller, F.
Ruprecht, q. T. Gale, N. C. Peterson, N.
Theis, W. H. Amesbury, Laramie; Fred
Hee, A. l.. Mauk, Carbon; Thos. Pear
son, Rock Springs; A. G. Rex, Evanston.
Yesterdays session was devoted to the
reading of reports and election of officers
for the ensuing year. The latter resulted
in the selection of the following named
members to o~ficiate in the capacities
mentioned:
Grand master-C. T. Gale, Laramie.
Deputy grand master-A. G.. Rex,
Evanston. o.
Grand warden-E. F. Gaylor, Chey.
enne.
Grand secretary-W. H. Amesbury,
Laramie.
Grand treasurer-H. Haas, Cheyenne.
Grand representativc-W. L. Kuyken-
dali, Cheyenne.
Though annual reports are usually
lengthy and prosy documents, interesting
only to those whom they concern, the ones
read yesterday contained facts and figures
which will be understood by the general
public and which are well worth adding
to anyone's fund of general information.
In Wyoming Territory there are six
teen Odd Fellow lodges, thirteen subordi-
mates and three Rebecca degrees, having
53l members in good standing. During
the society year about to end they have
disbursed 80. 200 in relief funds to dis.
trcssed brethren and their families. The
financial condition of the order is excel
lent, while its growth is healthy and
steady.
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